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The Faith Healer
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I got up and stepped out of the hotel. The early-morning breeze was moist and cool—pure refreshment after a night of suffering. Everything seemed reborn, and the small-town, good-natured Cubans…

Contributor:

Abraham Josef Dubelman

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1953

Subjects:

Diaspora, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Cities, Kashrut, Fiction

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Fiction
Responsum: On a Dispute over a Vineyard
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Question: From Rhodes. When the Lord expanded the borders [see Deuteronomy 19:8] of the dispersion of the diaspora and granted us a remnant and remainder in the kingdom of Turkey, He treated us with…

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David Ibn Abi Zimra

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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

Mid–16th Century

Subjects:

Economic life, Finance, Food and drink, Kashrut, Diaspora, Law, Responsa

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Law, Responsa
Netsaḥ Yisra’el (The Strength of Israel)
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It has been clarified for you that the survival of Israel in their state of exile depends on their unity and their connection with each other, and their separation from the idolatrous nations. It is…

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Judah Loew

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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1599

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Diaspora, Gentiles, Kashrut, Circumcision, Sermons

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Sermons
Dispatch of Food
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[Greetings, PN,] from [PN]. [No]w, I [sen]t to you, saying: “Do not dispatch to me bread without it being sealed.” Lo, all the jars are impure. Behold, the bread which [you] dispatch[ed] to me…

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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

Early 5th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Food and drink, Purity, Kashrut, Diaspora, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters